Sunscreen, urine damaging Fraser Is lake

Queensland Parks and Wildlife says it might have to limit access to a lake on Fraser Island, off the south-east Queensland coast, because tourists are damaging it.

Regional manager Rob Allen says about 35,000 people visit tiny Basin Lake each year and it has been damaged by high levels of sunscreen and urine in the water.

He says further testing will be done to see if it is necessary to close one of the tracks leading to the lake.

"There are concerns that have been building for some time that a very fragile lake which is essentially a basin, with no inflow or outflow, is very prone to impacts from people swimming with sunscreen, urine going into the lake in unacceptable quantities," he said.